Church of St James the Less

The Church of St James the Less is a small church built between 1850 and 1854 by R.C. Carpenter, with a vestry added in 1962 by Gareth Slater using materials from a demolished church at Braywood near Windsor. The church is constructed of flint with Bath stone dressings and features a steeply pitched tile roof, which is lower over the chancel, adorned with a crested ridge and coped gables. It consists of a four-bay nave, a north aisle, a south porch, and a one-bay chancel with a north aisle and vestry. Most of the windows are lancets.

On the south front of the nave, there is a two-light cusped window to the left. The timber-framed gabled porch has a cusped bargeboard, an arch-braced entrance, and six glazed cusped sidelights on low wooden panels on either side, along with a pair of steel outer doors with pointed heads. Inside, there is a planked inner door featuring iron scroll-work in a pointed arch with chamfered jambs and a hood-mould. To the right of the porch, there are two lancets and one offset buttress.

At the west end, the gable on the left belongs to the north aisle and has one lancet, while the gable on the right belongs to the nave and features two taller lancets with a cinquefoil window centrally above them. There are two buttresses and a bellcote with a bell in a pointed, cusped, arched opening.

The north aisle has three lancets. The chancel includes a single lancet on both the north and south sides, a three-light curvilinear traceried window on the east, and a similar two-light window on the north. The small link to the vestry has a two-light leaded cusped window on the east and a similar window on the gabled vestry.

Inside, the nave features a curved queen strut roof with two sets of butt purlins, and the aisle roof is similar. There is a four-bay arcade leading to the aisle. The church has delicate brass chandeliers, with the ones in the nave topped by a cross and the one in the chancel topped by a crown. The chancel also showcases good encaustic paintings on either side, depicting arcades of stylised trees and circular motifs.